The enforcement actions, among other issues, led the Arizona Association of Midwives to file a lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Health Services. The state’s midwifery rules put women and babies at risk and don’t follow best practices for health care, the lawsuit alleges.

Theranos, a blood testing company and lab that operates in 40 different Walgreens around the Valley, has been scrutinized for its proprietary technology and methods. But that does not mean the Arizona law that allows patients to obtain blood tests and results without prior review by a doctor – a law that Theranos helped author – is in jeopardy.

More than half of the 59,000 Arizonans who will need to change health insurance companies because of the planned Jan. 1 closure of the state's nonprofit co-op have chosen new carriers, officials with the failed nonprofit said.

Not far from a sewage treatment plant, a landfill and the Maricopa County jail annex are the four schools and hundreds of families that make up the Murphy Elementary School District in south Phoenix. More than 80 percent of its residents are Hispanic, most of them poor and many undocumented.